THOUGHTS:
"An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow." ~Lawrence Barrett
"Acting is the art of speaking in a loud clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture." ~Alfred Lunt
"An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham." ~Oscar Wilde
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." ~Oscar Wilde
“In theatre, unlike movies and television, it is always now. One of the most beautiful and painful facts of human existence is its transitoriness. Once a moment has passed it is gone forever. There are no ‘instant replays’ in life as we live it. This same transitory quality characterizes the theatrical event. Once a performance (even a moment in a performance) in the theatre has finished, it can never occur again in quite the same way. Each performance is a unique event because each one is a new combination of the actors’ energy and an ever changing audience.” ~Robert W. Corrigan, The World of the Theatre, (Glenview: Scott, Foresman And Company, 1979) p.30.
“Theater exists in a place that is inside and outside, here and there, now and then, mine and yours, actual and fantasy. A place where performers are themselves and others, where deeds are real and symbolic, where the dead come back to life, the old grow young; where audiences are seated yet carried away, touched yet left alone, still yet moved. Where stories are immediate and distant, where space is concrete and abstract, time accelerated, distorted, and slowed. From where do theatrical events come? They are not the purely personal actions or fantasies of the performers; they are not objective events taken from everyday life; they are not fiction; they are not embodiments of the director’s wishes; they are not realizations or interpretations of a text; they are not recreations of earlier events. There is something of all these in a performance: a precarious arrangement of unstable elements, a juggling act. Theater is situated between all the contending forces that give it life; and theatre is itself a life-giver.” ~Richard Schechner, Environmental Theater (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973).
"We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it." ~Thornton Wilder, 1958
“…the basic function of theatre is to be anti-government, anti-establishment and anti-social. What we all recognize as feeble theatre is the theatre that enters into the public lie of pretending that everything’s okay…. Social authority wishes for a nice, decent, convenient image to be given to the world…. The theatre [can] do something that no politician can do – make a radical transformation so that for a moment the world is seen complete, with all its difficulties, all its riches and all its potentialities.” ~Peter Brook, 1992
Information for the Actor
Cast/Parent Contact
Conflicts
Bios
Costume Info/ Measurements
Interest Sheet BBA Productions
TIME COMMITMENT
PLEASE REMEMBER:
CREW
Production Staff
House Manager
Light Board Operator
Playbill Manager
Production Stage Manager
Props Master-Mistress
Publicity Manager
Set Construction - Lighting and Running Crew
Sound Crew
Costume Designer
OTHER INFORMATION
Head shots and Resume
Why Warm-Up?.doc
The Do’s & Don'ts of Auditioning.pdfActor+Responsibilites-1.pdf
The following web site by Eric Armstrong does a stunning job of explaining and showing exactly how our voices work. He also includes some good dialect work (accents):
Journey of the Voice
Other Dialect/Accents Links
Paul Meier accents
THOUGHTS:
"An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow." ~Lawrence Barrett
"Acting is the art of speaking in a loud clear voice and the avoidance of bumping into the furniture." ~Alfred Lunt
"An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham." ~Oscar Wilde
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." ~Oscar Wilde
“In theatre, unlike movies and television, it is always now. One of the most beautiful and painful facts of human existence is its transitoriness. Once a moment has passed it is gone forever. There are no ‘instant replays’ in life as we live it. This same transitory quality characterizes the theatrical event. Once a performance (even a moment in a performance) in the theatre has finished, it can never occur again in quite the same way. Each performance is a unique event because each one is a new combination of the actors’ energy and an ever changing audience.” ~Robert W. Corrigan, The World of the Theatre, (Glenview: Scott, Foresman And Company, 1979) p.30.
“Theater exists in a place that is inside and outside, here and there, now and then, mine and yours, actual and fantasy. A place where performers are themselves and others, where deeds are real and symbolic, where the dead come back to life, the old grow young; where audiences are seated yet carried away, touched yet left alone, still yet moved. Where stories are immediate and distant, where space is concrete and abstract, time accelerated, distorted, and slowed. From where do theatrical events come? They are not the purely personal actions or fantasies of the performers; they are not objective events taken from everyday life; they are not fiction; they are not embodiments of the director’s wishes; they are not realizations or interpretations of a text; they are not recreations of earlier events. There is something of all these in a performance: a precarious arrangement of unstable elements, a juggling act. Theater is situated between all the contending forces that give it life; and theatre is itself a life-giver.” ~Richard Schechner, Environmental Theater (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973).
"We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it." ~Thornton Wilder, 1958
“…the basic function of theatre is to be anti-government, anti-establishment and anti-social. What we all recognize as feeble theatre is the theatre that enters into the public lie of pretending that everything’s okay…. Social authority wishes for a nice, decent, convenient image to be given to the world…. The theatre [can] do something that no politician can do – make a radical transformation so that for a moment the world is seen complete, with all its difficulties, all its riches and all its potentialities.” ~Peter Brook, 1992